Bilbo

I hit the motherlode: Barre Philips - Journal Violone (AKA Bass Barre or Barre Unaccompanied) Joe Fonda - When It's Time Marcin Oles - Ornette On Bass Jonas Tauber - Storm Walking Singing Dave Holland - Ones All/Emerald Tears Michael Formanek - Am I Bothering You? Barry Guy - Symmetries/Fizzles Joëlle Léandre - No Comment/Sincerely Miroslav Vitous - Emergence Peter Kowald - Was Da Ist? Paul Rogers - Listen Ron Carter - All Alone John Lindberg - Luminosity : Homage To David Izenzon Kent Kessler - Bull Fiddle (although Zerang joins on three tracks). Mark Dresser - Invocation/Unveil Ken Filiano - Subvenire Malachi Favors - The Natural and the Spiritual Lynn Seaton - Solo Flights Mike Milligan - Solo Flights Eberhard Weber - Pendulum Malachi Favors - The Natural and the Spiritual Fernando Grillo - Fluvine Alan Silva - Inner Song Roberto Miguel Miranda - The Creator's Musician Ed Schuller - Ong Song Music For Solo Bass William Parker - Lifting The Sanctions/Testimony/Painter's Autumn Henri Texier - Amir/Varech Aladar Pege - Virtuoso Solo Bass Anthony Cox - That & This Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten - Double Bass Dominic Duval - Songs For Krakow/Nightbird Inventions/Anniversary Wilbert de Joode - Olo Journal Violone by Barre Phillips Unveil CD by Mark Dresser William Parker solo bass record on No More records Anthony Cox's Double Base Kent Kessler's Bull Fiddle Ed Schuller's Ong Song Ingebrigt Haker Flaten double bass Dominic Duval Songs for Krakow, Nightbird Inventions and Anniversary Wilbert de Joode's "Olo" Vitold Rek "bassfiddle alla polacca" Stefano Scodanibbio "Geografia Amorosa" Anders Jormin "Alone Harry Miller's - Children at Play

I remembered another one I have. Jean Francois Jenny-Clark's Unison. Some interesting ideas. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unison-J-F-Jenny-Clark/dp/B000008AKI/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1318100016&sr=1-1

That Bromberg sounds interesting. I'm gonna get me that one.

Nice stuff, Pete, but its not a solo, its bass with accompaniment. I am looking for stone cold, out there on your own double bass...

You notice I don't post my own version

You could probably cut out about 50-60% of what you are doing and make the notes count more, Mike. Your solo doesn't start somewhere and go somewhere else, it just is. I remember someone once said to me 'deny yourself 3 times before you play something'. It prevents the musical diarrhoea (spelling block) we are all guilty of when we try and fill every space. Let the rhythm section speak and 'frame' your phrases (it even works on an Aebersold)! Tell a story, as Lester Young says. You are making the changes, no mean feat, but aren't letting your audience make them with you. Hope that doesn't come over as too brutal. You play great, mate, but a fast run sounds better if it isn't surrounded by other fast runs!

I am lsitening to Dave Holland's 'Emarald Tears' and have his 'One's All' cd. I also have Edgar Meyer's Bach Cello Suites cd. Does anyone know of any other solo double bass cds> I know of a truckload of duets: Holland and Sam Rivers, HOlland and Milcho Leviev, Haden and Jarrett, Haden and Metheny, Glen Moore and Nancy King etc but can't think of any other solo double bass cds. Loads of electric bass solo stuff but not so much the double bass. Can anyone think of anything I hve missed?

Can't wait to hear it, Mike. I still can't make this tune sound like anything but running scales!

Learning theory in music is like learning to read and comprehend the English Language. As you are ready what I have written, you don't sit there thinking 'i before e except after c', 'that word consistes of a t followed by a h and an e so that means 'the', 'ahhh, the pronoun and the adverb are in the correct order' and so on. You glide over it without even noticing that you are doing it. Learning and comprehending music theory is a step towards using it. When you play, you use it all of the time, you just don't know that you are because you have internalised it. The more knowledge you have, the more it will come out in your playing. Learning a lick will only offer you the means to repeat that lick. Learn the theory behind it and you will open a thousand doors. Its the musical equivalent of 'Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he will eat every day of his life'. At least, that's the theory.

Learn them. Start with the first four frets and the open strings and the rest will grow from there. E - F - F sharp/Gb - G - G sharp/Ab A - A sharp/Bb - B - C - C sharp/Db D - D sharp/Eb - E - F - Fsharp/Gb G - G sharp/Ab - A - A sharp/Bb - B

Try a piano. It all makes more sense on a piano

Ask him.

Good. I've got his number!!

There is a link to my soundcloud page in my signature. Enjoy....

Oh and I have jsut noticed Kenny WHeeler's Windmill Tilter has finally been released on CD. That's gone right to the top of my wish list!!

Welcome to the world f six string bass playing. The whole string dampening thing becomes a science in itself and there are several solutions. There is a video of Kevin Glasgow on here somewhere where he has a wrist band wrapped around the neck of his bass whiilst he plays it to stop the open strings from vibrating. I foudn myself that I had to use my right hand to stop that opens strings whilst I played the upper strings. THere are other solutions and others will have something to say but, in short, you are discovering one of that hazards of Extended Range basses. To be blunt, it was one of the reasons I never really enjoyed the instrument (mine was a Status Energy 6). Never got comfortable with it. My bad. I just didn't get anything from it that made me want to keep going.

Listening to Alex Sipiagin's Prints Cd. Good writing. Been trying to listen to 'new' stuff (for me, not neceessarily new in chronological terms). David Binney is doing some nice stuff. Chris Cheek is an interesting player. There's also Ryan Kisor, a Dave Holland sideman who has done a couple of nice cds, one a quartet with Chris Potter and no harmony instrument. Kevin Eubank's 'Zen Food' is a great CD (I have liked him since his tenure with Holland for the Extensions LP - saw that band at the Bath Jazz Festival. This cd is really strong on performance and content. I listened to that Wyntn Marsalis interview on Jamie Cullem's Radio 2 programme last Tuesday and he said something that strucka chord. HE was talking about his father showing him the 'joy of seriousness', the idea that taking something seriously and commiting to and investing in it brings its own pleasure, its own fun. A lot of people here talk about ;its supposed to be fun'. Well, I agree and working hard at this stuff is the [i]best[/i] fun I just wish I could go home now and write some tunes.

I have the K&K Sound Double Big Twin Upright Bass 5 string pick up and, with a Fishman Plat Pro, it sounds great. And you fit it without any modifications to the bridge. http://www.gollihurmusic.com/product/1426-KANDK_SOUND_DOUBLE_BIG_TWIN_UPRIGHT_BASS_PICKUP.html

There is a cd by Glen Moore (Oregon) and Nancy King called 'Impending Bloom' (see link) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Impending-Bloom-Nancy-King/dp/B000000NQ5/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1317310514&sr=1-4 A track on Claudia Acuna's cd Wind From The South called Alfonsia Y El Mar where she duets with Avishai Cohen. And there is a Kurt Elling video on Youtube where he duets with a bass (its absolutely stunning but I can't recall the title of the track or the player).

Pat Metheny Secret Story

S***. Steve has done a few repairs for me and it has always been a pleasure to deal with him. I am going to have to find someone else now. Not easy out here in the sticks!!

Randy Tico (Airto and Flora Purim) Bunny Brunel (Chick Corea) Brian Bromberg Neil Murray (Whitesnake but also National Health) John Mole (Colosseum II, Gary Moore)

I have one that I got for double bass so I didn't have to always plug in my Behringer Rack Mounted tuner. I got the Behringer so I could detune accurately in the dark (my eyes are not great and I find the little tuners hard to see in the half light of most stages). I fit the clip on to the bridge of my double bass and it works a treat. Cost £7. Also an aid to accurate intonation in the early stages of practising. I use it with electric on doubling gigs and it works fine for both (I clip it on the headstock on the Wal).

Excellent point, Pete. This stuff is not complicated and 'tricks' to memorise the whole thing are not that important. Just learn the damn thing

Actually, this is what you need, lobematt. David Baker's How To Play Bebop vol 2. (Vol 1 & 3 are equally useful) http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Play-Bebop-2-ebook/dp/B004O6LMIA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1317286156&sr=8-2 Its only about £7 and will fill in the gaps you are trying to plug. I was looking at it last night and thought 'Bingo'! You can get it as a Kindle book as well if that's easier.